Aquinas on Participation and Divine Simplicity | Prof. Gregory Doolan

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Professor Gregory Doolan discusses how Aquinas reconciles his understanding of participation with divine simplicity. He discusses the meaning of participation, its types, and how God can be present in all things while remaining transcendent.

This lecture was given on May 31, 2024, at Mount Saint Mary College.

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About the Speaker:

Gregory T. Doolan received his B.A. in political theory from Georgetown University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2003. He taught philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. from 2004–05 and joined the faculty of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in 2005. Dr. Doolan’s research interest is in the area of Aquinas’s metaphysics; in recent years, his focus has been on Aquinas’s semantic theory and his account of the Aristotelian categories of being. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Doolan currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

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1:24.1	slash Rome. For St. Thomas Aquinas, the doctrine of divine simplicity is fundamental, both to his theological
1:33.3	and philosophical considerations of God. Indeed, in the Sumo theologia, God's simplicity is the very first
1:41.0	divine attribute that he addresses after having offered his famous five ways
1:46.8	of demonstrating that God exists. Perhaps as foundational to his theological and philosophical
1:54.1	thought is the doctrine of participation. But unlike his teaching on divine simplicity,
2:06.4	Aquinas' notion of participation at no point receives from him a dedicated quistio or article. Instead, it's woven throughout his writings and clarified in the course of
2:14.1	considerations of such diverse topics as the relation of essence to essay,
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